India’s hedging strategy to counter Trump’s Tariff Threat
- Opinion by Arpith John Raj The main highlight of this week’s news is the SCO summit in Beijing. The importance of this summit should be read along with Trump’s ‘Strategic Tariff Adjustments’, which hampers fair-trade practices and the development of the third world nations, aiming to create a state of sustained dependency. Since assuming the office of the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump had been opting out a strategy of coercive diplomacy using the Sun Tzu’s saying of ‘subdue the enemy without fighting’ it is clear from the instances that Trump wanted his enemies and allies to submit to the primacy of United States, and he want them to be pleading on the ‘Oval office’. Before the economic might of the United States, especially in a liberal global order, no state has had the spine to oppose it individually, surprisingly except one,- China. China was the only state that had reciprocated with counter tariffs on US products to a great extent, which had pre...